US Patent Issued to LIBURDI ENGINEERING on July 7 for "System and method for preventing stub-outs in GTAW" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,380, issued on July 7, was assigned to LIBURDI ENGINEERING Ltd. (Dundas, Canada).

"System and method for preventing stub-outs in GTAW" was invented by Dale Osmanson (Poulsbo, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for welding. In some embodiments, the system includes a tungsten electrode, an electrode position actuator, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit may be configured to detect contact between the tungsten electrode and a weld puddle, and, in response to detecting contact between the tungsten electrode and the weld puddle, to control the electrode position actuator to move the tungsten electrode out...